This is awesome! What makes it so awesome is that back in March my family was visiting and we were sitting around the dinner table chatting and launching when my Dad revealed to us his latest "idea" (of which he has many – much longer story). His idea was a book of baby names that all contained numbers. We proceeded to convert all our names and family names into names that included numbers:

Name

Translation

Pronunciation

David

DAV1D

dav-one-dee

Becky

3ECKY

three-kee

Carey

CARE4

care-four

Mary

MAR4

mar-four

Rob

RO3

row-three

We made them for the rest of our family (cousins, aunts and uncles) and then vowed to only call each other and other members of our family by our "number names". It didn’t really stick as well as we thought and mostly we thought my dad was nuts! 🙂

It’s everything you’d want in a show: dramatic, suspenseful, sexy and all based on reality…actually, it’s just freakin’ hilarious. Basically you have a co-ed group of talent-show drama-queens fulfilling out childhood dreams of becoming dancers – and you get to watch them crack under pressure on national television. Even the panel of judges are melodramatic. It’s fabulous!! On top of it, some of them are freakin’ amazing dancers and you get to watch them learn choreography and dance – which is pretty cool.

The best scene of the night last night was when, Nigel Lythgoe, the show producer and one of the panel judges was reaming out the tired and injured bunch of contestants that have made it to the Las Vegas round, belittling them for complaining about being sick or injured and how normally, as a human, he would feel awful for them and care for them, but in this case:

"I’m not a human, I’m a television producer."

It was brilliant!! I can’t wait to use that one at work, "I’m not a human, I’m a Program Manager!"